By Mike Kirwan Venice
Little sympathy for Schmidt Editor: Shame, wasting an article on Martin Schmidt (“Surfer’s life went adrift,” Jan. 1, page 1). Supposedly, he was a wonderful man. Wonderful men don’t jump out of windows trying to escape police. He was suspected of trying to rob a market. Police didn’t see the crime, so he was only a suspect — innocent until proven guilty. But jumping out of a third-floor window to evade police does not sound very innocent.
I shall save sympathy for someone who deserves it, not this Darwin Award winner.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 3, 2007. Read the original PDF.